Commuting to San Francisco no fun manana

I will get to play in Blogger Bracelet Race tourney today. My drive home today was a lttle obstructed due to what 511.org called a traffic accident that would take an estimated 2 hours to clear. Follow link to AP Photo/Paul Sakuma to form your own opinion of how long it takes to clear wreckage of burned gas tanker.

Fonkery Throwdown

Playing a $10+1 FTOPS Avatar Satellite and was victim of this wonderful bit of Fonkery.
Apologies for not have real hand history.

Blinds at 20/40 I raised to 200 from UTG +2
SB and BB call.

Not happy with 3 callers but flop of Q 9 2 rainbow is ragged enough, After 2 checks I bet 380.
SB folds
BB raises to 660 (280 raise less than min raise) with K 8 off
I call because even if he has Q 9 I figure I am priced in.
Fonkey is rewarded with turn K and River 8.

FTOPS #7

Here I come:

Full Tilt Poker Game #2297348841:
Satellite to FTOPS Event #7 (17253546),
Table 4 - 400/800 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo - 23:44:03 ET - 2007/04/26
Seat 3: bayne_s (31,470)
Seat 4: SmackeytheFrog (21,030)
SmackeytheFrog posts the small blind of 400
bayne_s posts the big blind of 800
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bayne_s [8c 8s 7s 7h]
SmackeytheFrog calls 400
SmackeytheFrog is feeling normal
bayne_s checks
*** FLOP *** [Kh 7d 6s]
bayne_s bets 1,600
SmackeytheFrog raises to 6,400

Had seen him raise KKxx pre-flop 3 times and bet out low draws thought I was ahead for high, let's see if there is no low.

bayne_s raises to 20,800
SmackeytheFrog calls 13,830, and is all in
bayne_s shows [8c 8s 7s 7h]
SmackeytheFrog shows [6d 4s 3c 6h]
Uncalled bet of 570 returned to bayne_s
*** TURN ***
[Kh 7d 6s] [Kc]
*** RIVER ***
[Kh 7d 6s Kc] [4d]
bayne_s shows a full house, Sevens full of Kings, for high
SmackeytheFrog shows a full house, Sixes full of Kings, for high
bayne_s wins the pot (42,060) with a full house, Sevens full of Kings
SmackeytheFrog stands up
bayne_s stands up
No low hand qualified
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 42,060 Rake 0Board: [Kh 7d 6s Kc 4d]
Seat 3: bayne_s (big blind) showed [8c 8s 7s 7h] and won (42,060) with HI: a full house, Sevens full of Kings
Seat 4: SmackeytheFrog (small blind) showed [6d 4s 3c 6h] and lost with HI: a full house, Sixes full of Kings

Mookie Cash

If I was Wawfuls I would create a post extolling the brilliance of my play in the Mookie last night. Playing my cards brilliantly on my way to finishing 2nd. But after scraping to Final Table I was a card rack lucksack.

1st LoveElf dared to try to put me out 9th with mere Aces and my KK sucked out on the turn.

Then down to 3 handed got caught trying to steal Smokkee 's BB from SB with 85 (sooooted). Smokkee apparently failed to learn from Elf's mistake and pushed with AA only to see me river a straight to put him out.

Hopefully neither LoveElf or Smokkee screamed out my name during their post Final Table treats.

Sub Sub-prime lending

Warning: No Poker Content

The people who want to buy my house have finally found a lender willing to loan them 90% of the money they need to purchase. Sadly they need a 10% 2nd mortgage that they have not found a lender for.

Their latest offer and according to their realtor only way they can complete transaction is for me to act as 2nd lender. Most amusing part of offer to me is that their realtor is also a mortgage broker. He does not want to make secondary loan to his clients for 10% of purchase price when he gets an immediate 3% payoff in commissions when sale goes through.

Don't think I need to see their credit report to make this decision. Realtor/Broker's actions speak volumes.

Can't say mindset was good for poker tonight, Wednesday has to be better.

Full Tilt Poker "Support"

Got this wonderful response from Full Tilt Poker about the Dookie last week:

Hello Bayne,

Thank you for contacting Full Tilt Poker Support.In normal multi table heads up tournaments, players have to wait for all games to be done to move onto the next round. Since this was a private tournament the structure was different. Player oossuuu754 had already eliminated three other players by the time you finished your game against mookie99, this is why you were out chipped 3 to 1. Thank you for your cooperation, and if there's anything else we can help you with, please let us know.

Regards,

Aaron
Full Tilt Poker Team

AK suited is a drawing Hand

It is of course the best drawing hand.

Before I went to Melbourne I always played AK really strong but at my 1st table I found:

Seat 1: Unknown Australian
Seat2: Peter "Nordberg" Feldman
Seat 3: Jeff Madsen
Seat 4: Me (how did this happen)
Seat 5: Unknown (South African)
Seat 6: Tim "TMAY420" West
Seat 7: Unknown Australian
Seat 8: Owen "ocrowe" Crowe
Seat 9: Unknown Australian
Seat 10: Empty and blinding off

1st hand Nordberg lost half his chips with AK, flop was AK small, turn was T, river was J to South African who claimed to have pocket Aces.

Early in 2nd level Owen busted out to guy in Seat 9 who was clearly tightest player at table in a blind vs. blind situation when after a K92 rainbow flop and Ace on turn he discovered his AK had run into an AA.

Later in 2nd round after one caller I was inspired to limp (200) with AhKh suited (the hand of death at my table) and Tim raised to 1200 and I called on flop of Kc 6h 4h we got all chips in on flop and Tim had AdKd but no hearts came.

End of 2nd round I had AK in BB, tighest guy at table raised and I called OOP to see KK4 rainbow flop and I took down a decent pot with a check raise as I was sure he had decent pair and did not want to be blind to if he hit boat (he later told me he had Aces).

After writing this down I can see Blinder's and Hoy's point. All of these hands were raised preflop.

We were joking during 2nd break that AK was a "cooler" for everyone at the table but me but also noticed I had called with it while they had all raised with it. None of these calls represented more than 1/20th of my stack.

If I've achieved nothing else this week at least I have increased range of hands I will limp with in a blogger tournament.

$18k Cash

Could have folded to Final Table but decided to race from BB with pocket 4s, SB had pushed with a Q 5 and hit both.

This did not suck since I was in from Token Frenzy:

Big props to Smokkee for railing me, his reward was he got to see this:

My apologies to hoyazo for my improper hammer play technique, Gephardt80 (judging by his blowing up with huge chip lead this may be a SirFWALGMan multi-account situation) min-raised UTG. He had been raising large every hand he had called anyone's re-raise for 4 orbits so I meekly called to hide the strength of my hand. I checked the flop and he obliged with a push. I was disappointed that he had garbage but table enjoyed Hammer Drop.

The Information is in Front of you

I play so fawking bad some nights.
I certainly play enough Omaha to know 3 people see turn on a paired flop
someone already has the boat.

Full Tilt Poker Game #2227199071: Mondays at the Hoy (16395575),
Table 1 - 60/120 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:16:37 ET - 2007/04/16
Seat 1: Unimpressed (9,483)
Seat 2: hoyazo (4,250)
Seat 3: BuddyDank (8,265)
Seat 4: SirFWALGMan (5,335)
Seat 6: summer_babe (3,897)
Seat 7: smokkee (3,640)
Seat 8: sellthekids (6,680)
Seat 9: bayne_s (3,000)
SirFWALGMan posts the small blind of 60
summer_babe posts the big blind of 120
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bayne_s [As Ks]
bayne_s: 1 0 how smart do you really have to be?
smokkee calls 120
sellthekids folds
bayne_s calls 120

Limped with a suited AK at Aussie Millions in from cutoff in Level II. Liked the result after flopping K and 2 small of suit and got Tim West (TMAY420) all in with an AK of his own. Freeroll did not come in for me but it prompted discussion amongst the real poker players at next break.
This time if I had listened to what I learned I might have escaped with my tourney life

Unimpressed folds
sellthekids: about 75 IQ
Schaubs (Observer): being smart helps in poker
irFWALGMan: im actually a medicore overrachiever
hoyazo calls 120
BuddyDank folds
SirFWALGMan calls 60
Schaubs (Observer): lots
summer_babe checks
*** FLOP ***
[Ts Ah Ac]
SirFWALGMan checks
summer_babe checks
SirFWALGMan: oh oh he limped Aces again
smokkee checks
bayne_s bets 600
hoyazo calls 600
SirFWALGMan folds
summer_babe folds
Schaubs (Observer): bet your quads
smokkee calls 600
*** TURN ***
[Ts Ah Ac] [Jc]
sellthekids: mc donalds has colored buttons now, no need for anything above 80smokkee checks
bayne_s bets 2,280, and is all in (Quite possibly the stupidest bet ever made at MATH)
hoyazo calls 2,280
SirFWALGMan: did anyone notice those low paying jobs have worker gangs?
smokkee: DONKERIFIC
smokkee raises to 2,920, and is all in
hoyazo calls 640smokkee shows [Ad Jd]
bayne_s shows [As Ks]
hoyazo shows [Th Td]
SirFWALGMan: like one week it is the Hispanic Gang
*** RIVER ***
[Ts Ah Ac Jc] [Qd]
sellthekids: ouch
smokkee shows a full house, Aces full of Jacks
hoyazo shows a full house, Tens full of Aces
smokkee wins the side pot (1,280) with a full house, Aces full of Jacks
bayne_s shows a straight, Ace high
smokkee wins the main pot (9,240) with a full house, Aces full of Jacks
smokkee: buh buy donkeys
bayne_s stands up
summer_babe: good god
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 10,520 Main pot 9,240. Side pot 1,280. Rake 0
Board: [Ts Ah Ac Jc Qd]
Seat 1: Unimpressed didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: hoyazo showed [Th Td] and lost with a full house, Tens full of Aces
Seat 3: BuddyDank (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: SirFWALGMan (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 6: summer_babe (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 7: smokkee showed [Ad Jd] and won (10,520) with a full house, Aces full of Jacks
Seat 8: sellthekids didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: bayne_s showed [As Ks] and lost with a straight, Ace high

No Poker Content

Just finished reading part III of Violent Acres posts of how she became a 15 year old bride.

I have been reading her blog for a few months and was fascinated with level of anger/outrage that is carried within or beneath the surface and now I understand the basis of anger and bond I have felt.

I am fortunate that my own immediate family was only a little dysfunctional. My father has his flaws but they pale in comparison to his eldest brother who was beloved by the community at large while beating his wife and abusing his kids. When he put his house up for sale one time to move on it was bought by the next door neighbor who burned it to the ground as he "Never wanted to have neighbors like that again". When he did die (from a self-inflicted shotgun blast) my 1st question was did he take anyone else out with him, I was not only relative who asked this.

Christopher Titus claims in his act that Dysfunctional Families are now the Majority. I implore my 6 blog readers that if you suspect that someone you live near is abusing their children or spouse Help Them.

Call the police, social services or local schools where children are in attendance.

2 Hands from the MATH

Two Hands from Math

As Antes chewed up my stack low on chips I folded 52off 3 times, 96 off, 10 5 off waiting for a better hand until BB got to me:

Full Tilt Poker Game #2176438424: Mondays at the Hoy (16336999), Table 1 - 150/300 Ante 25 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:46:57 ET - 2007/04/09
Seat 1: HighOnPoker (7,449)
Seat 3: lester000 (8,380)
Seat 4: oossuuu754 (7,490)
Seat 5: Blinders (2,445)
Seat 6: AlCantHang (2,185)
Seat 7: Wippy1313 (2,086)
Seat 8: Schaubs (9,022)
Seat 9: bayne_s (695)
Schaubs posts the small blind of 150
bayne_s posts the big blind of 300
The button is in seat #7
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bayne_s [3d 2d] (Fawk, this is what I waited for)
HighOnPoker folds
lester000 folds
Blinders raises to 800
AlCantHang folds
Wippy1313 folds
Schaubs folds
bayne_s calls 370, and is all in (it's heads up and 370 to get 1320)
Blinders shows [Ac Jd]
bayne_s shows [3d 2d]
Uncalled bet of 130 returned to Blinders
*** FLOP *** [Kd 2s 9h]
*** TURN *** [Kd 2s 9h] [Kc]
*** RIVER *** [Kd 2s 9h Kc] [4d]
Blinders shows a pair of Kings
bayne_s shows two pair, Kings and Twos
bayne_s wins the pot (1,690) with two pair, Kings and Twos
smokkee (Observer): LMAO
Blinders: lol
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1,690 Rake 0
Board: [Kd 2s 9h Kc 4d]
Seat 5: Blinders showed [Ac Jd] and lost with a pair of Kings
eat 9: bayne_s (big blind) showed [3d 2d] and won (1,690) with two pair, Kings and Twos

Gather a few more chips and tried to steal from EP:

Full Tilt Poker Game #2176478741: Mondays at the Hoy (16336999), Table 1 - 150/300 Ante 25 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:52:08 ET - 2007/04/09
Seat 1: HighOnPoker (8,849)
Seat 3: lester000 (7,205)
Seat 4: oossuuu754 (9,065)
Seat 6: Victim (1,735)
Seat 7: Wippy1313 (2,111)
Seat 8: Schaubs (8,722)
Seat 9: bayne_s (2,065)
Victim posts the small blind of 150
Wippy1313 posts the big blind of 300
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bayne_s [4c Ac]
Schaubs folds
bayne_s raises to 1,000 (UTG+1 try not going all in like I want action)
HighOnPoker folds
lester000 folds
oossuuu754 folds
Victim raises to 1,710, and is all in (oops got caught)
HighOnPoker: smokee, you kiddin?
Wippy1313 folds
bayne_s calls 710 (710 to win 3200 got pot odds unless you have Aces)
Victim shows [Qh Kc] (You've got to be kidding me)
bayne_s shows [4c Ac]
*** FLOP *** [Th Qs Ts]
*** TURN *** [Th Qs Ts] [7s]
*** RIVER *** [Th Qs Ts 7s] [Ah]
Victim shows two pair, Queens and Tens
bayne_s shows two pair, Aces and Tens
bayne_s wins the pot (3,895) with two pair, Aces and Tens
Victim stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3,895 Rake 0
Board: [Th Qs Ts 7s Ah]
Seat 6: Victim (small blind) showed [Qh Kc] and lost with two pair, Queens and Tens
Seat 9: bayne_s showed [4c Ac] and won (3,895) with two pair, Aces and Tens
Victim (Observer): all that to go down to a weak ace
smokkee (Observer): A-rag is THA NUTZ
bayne_s: sooooted
InstantTragedy (Observer): Vgg Victim Sorry to put the odds against ya this evening... COuld have been worse, could have gone down to a suited Hammer
Victim (Observer): the call of the donkey. "they were sooooted"

Let's see if I am understand this. You re-raise with KQ off from SB for all YOUR chips with a raise that is less than 3/4 of a min raise. I get 4:1 pot odds to call and you think I am the donkey.

Surflexus Shirt suggestion

For my entry in Surflexus' website contest I would suggest above shirt available through http://www.bigdogs.com/

They have many other poker themed shirts available but I think going with the tourist on vacation playing poker look is +EV.

Also don't forget to play the MATH tonight:

Tournament: Mondays at the Hoy (MATH)

Where: Full Tilt Poker

When: Monday. 10pm ET

Buyin: $24+2Password: hammer

Of course everyone who visits my blog is already aware of this

Happy Easter

Celebrated Good Friday by playing in an $8.80 satellite to the Sunday $400K Guarantee.

This of course led to celebrating Easter by playing in the $400k.

During course of tournament I had a pair above 99 once (QQ) until very late (KK).

As a homage to Hoyazo some screen shots are included.

The key hand that got me into the money was an AK suited. Can't find the hand history but I was BB (1600) with 3400 behind, ~330 left, 306 paid. Button made pot raise, SB went all in for 15k I called, button folded. SB had 10 10 and flop was AK small, turn was J river was small. I then folded to the money as cards were awful.

I play a little tight but I do play more than top 10% hands saw a lot of hands that were better for doubling down at BlackJack than playing Hold'em with.

Was at an aggressive table that had chip leader on a card rush, UTG was my only chance to be 1st all in and cards were awful. Was given a gift in BB when down to 1616 with BB at 1600 when one of the mainiacs raised with Q3 and I had QJ and flopped 2 jacks.

This gave me a chance to risk tourney with.
Wow they held up.

Was bottom 10 in chips most of the time once we got to 2nd money level and went out 98th (bottom of a money cutoff though) when UTG with 5x BB I picked up 88. On this action a JackAce in SB called off half his chips.

bayne_s antes 350

TenthPlanet posts the small blind of 1,400

ReavisWrestling posts the big blind of 2,800

The button is in seat #6

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to bayne_s [8h 8c]

bayne_s raises to 11,530, and is all in

Antoshka fold

srks ceo folds

shipitydoda folds

gianka foldsjaris folds

TenthPlanet raises to 19,672, and is all in

ReavisWrestling folds

TenthPlanet shows [Ac Jd]

bayne_s shows [8h 8c]

Uncalled bet of 8,142 returned to TenthPlanet

*** FLOP ***

[Jc 5s As]

SmashingPumpkin sits down

SmashingPumpkin adds 110,956

*** TURN ***

[Jc 5s As] [Ts]

*** RIVER ***

[Jc 5s As Ts] [2c]

TenthPlanet shows two pair, Aces and Jacks

bayne_s shows a pair of Eights

TenthPlanet wins the pot (28,660) with two pair, Aces and Jacks

bayne_s stands up .

Fawking KK (again)

At least this fawking time I got in with them against a shorter stack.

Full Tilt Poker Game #2146349696:
Riverchasers Tour Event #7 (15607864),
Table 4 - 60/120 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:10:55 ET - 2007/04/05
Seat 1: Raffk2 (2,170)
Seat 2: HomelessShelter (1,620)
Seat 3: cmitch (3,718)
Seat 4: JoeSpeaker (1,015)
Seat 5: bayne_s (1,970)
Seat 6: virtual_tycoon (7,965)
Seat 7: PHFlyers (1,195)
Seat 8: a104l9 (1,665)
Raffk2 posts the small blind of 60
HomelessShelter posts the big blind of 120
The button is in seat #8
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bayne_s [Kh Kc]
cmitch folds
JoeSpeaker raises to 420
bayne_s raises to 1,440
virtual_tycoon folds
PHFlyers folds
a104l9 foldsRaffk2 folds
HomelessShelter folds
JoeSpeaker calls 595, and is all in
bayne_s shows [Kh Kc]JoeSpeaker shows [As Ad]
Uncalled bet of 425 returned to bayne_s
*** FLOP ***
[6h 8h 6d]
virtual_tycoon: ouch
*** TURN ***
[6h 8h 6d] [Qs]
*** RIVER ***
[6h 8h 6d Qs] [7s]
bayne_s shows two pair, Kings and Sixes
JoeSpeaker shows two pair, Aces and Sixes
JoeSpeaker wins the pot (2,210) with two pair, Aces and Sixes
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2,210 Rake 0
Board: [6h 8h 6d Qs 7s]
Seat 1: Raffk2 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 2: HomelessShelter (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: cmitch didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: JoeSpeaker showed [As Ad] and won (2,210) with two pair, Aces and Sixes
Seat 5: bayne_s showed [Kh Kc] and lost with two pair, Kings and Sixes
Seat 6: virtual_tycoon didn't bet (folded)
Seat 7: PHFlyers didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: a104l9 (button) didn't bet (folded)

Countdown to Vegas

A friend of mine that started my slide into gambling via Horse Racing has convinced me to meet him in Vegas in 15 days.

His current focus is Video Poker so we are staying at The Cannery.

What do I need to know? All previous trips I've stayed mid strip or Rio.

If Miami Don wants to meet up to explain how any 3 cards in Razz can include KQQ even when I'm all in to complete or any one else wants to say hello you can contact me at send_all_stinking_spam_here (at) yahoo (dot) com.

Fawking Kings

Gawd Dam Full Tilt Poker's RNG screws me over when I get KK.

Full Tilt Poker Game #2141020053: $2 + $0.25 Sit & Go (16093035),
Table 1 - 15/30 - No Limit Hold'em - 1:40:29 ET - 2007/04/05
Seat 1: BrucemanNerd (1,365)
Seat 2: halak (1,410)
Seat 3: viet-vet1969 (1,770)
Seat 4: bayne_s (1,500)
Seat 5: macbling (1,500)
Seat 6: Riverite2 (1,500)
Seat 7: DuecenNuts (1,575)
Seat 8: pkrdude1 (1,500)
Seat 9: mleone (1,380)
viet-vet1969 posts the small blind of 15
bayne_s posts the big blind of 30
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bayne_s [Kh Kc]
macbling folds
Riverite2 folds
DuecenNuts calls 30
pkrdude1 raises to 150
mleone calls 150
BrucemanNerd foldshalak calls 150
viet-vet1969 folds
bayne_s raises to 1,500, and is all in (Buy in is $2.25 I'll get a caller)
DuecenNuts folds
pkrdude1 calls 1,350, and is all in
mleone calls 1,230, and is all in
halak calls 1,260, and is all in (FAWK didn't want 3 callers)
bayne_s shows [Kh Kc]
pkrdude1 shows [Qs Qh]
mleone shows [As Qd]
halak shows [Qc Ac]
(other than 3 AQ off could I have gotten a better situation)
*** FLOP ***
[4h 5c 2h]
*** TURN ***
[4h 5c 2h] [3c] (Fawk KK)
*** RIVER ***
[4h 5c 2h 3c] [7c]
bayne_s shows a pair of Kings
pkrdude1 shows a pair of Queens
bayne_s wins side pot #2 (180) with a pair of Kings
halak shows a flush, Ace high
halak wins side pot #1 (90) with a flush, Ace high
mleone shows a straight, Five high
halak wins the main pot (5,565) with a flush, Ace high
mleone stands uppkrdude1 stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5,835 Main pot 5,565. Side pot 1 90. Side pot 2 180. Rake 0
Board: [4h 5c 2h 3c 7c]
Seat 1: BrucemanNerd didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: halak (button) showed [Qc Ac] and won (5,655) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 3: viet-vet1969 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: bayne_s (big blind) showed [Kh Kc] and won (180) with a pair of Kings
Seat 5: macbling didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: Riverite2 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 7: DuecenNuts folded before the Flop
Seat 8: pkrdude1 showed [Qs Qh] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 9: mleone showed [As Qd] and lost with a straight, Five high

MATH has new Home

But the Bad beats to knock me out keep coming.
8 hands prior to my last Columbo tries to steal my BB with a raise greater than 1/2 his stack with QT off. I wake up with KK in BB and push, Columbo getting ~4:1 on his money makes the call and is rewarded with 6-T straight thanks FTP RNG.

Manage to double up twice to get back to decent stack when Iakaris decides to raise my BB with KJ off. I wake up with KK again and push. Iak being at the high end of his raising range decides to call getting ~2:1 on his money and applying his own re-raising hand range to me.
FTP RNG of course rewards his 10% play and IGH.

Please apply everything Hoy has ever said about AJ to KJ people.